TITLE XXIII
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY
Number and year
Of Principal Law
Proc. 10/1896
H.C.N. 42/1910
H.C.N. 42/1910
H.C.N.128/1938
Proc. 9/1921
Proc. 14/1938
H.C.N. 70/1958
H.C.N. 15/1923
Proc. 1/1952
H.C.N.150/1953
Proc.57/1952
G.N. 5/1957
Short Title
Stock Diseases …………………… ….
Stock Diseases Regulations ………….
Importation of Bees …………………..
Ports of Entry (Stock Diseases)………
Pedigree Livestock……………………
Wool and Mohair …………………….
Wool and Mohair Export Duty………
Ports of Exit (Wool and Mohair)……..
Wool and Mohair Marketing and Export
Wool and Mohair Marketing and Export
Regulations…………………………….
Importations, etc., of Livestock ………..
Ports of Entry (Livestock)……………..
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1969
1984
1985
1986
1988
1994
1994
1996
1998
2016
2022
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PROCLAMATION 10 OF 1896
10 of 1896.
24 of 1896.
8 of 1903.
7 of 1921.
18 0f 1922.
57 of 1922.
16 of 1923.
80 of 1935
STOCK DISEASES
To make provision for the prevention of disease among stock.
[3rd March. 1922]
Cap. 78.
Short title
1. This Proclamation may be cited as the Stock Disease Proclamation.
PART 1
GENERAL
Regulations.
2. It shall be lawful for the High Commissioner in Council from time to time by
Notice in the Gazette to make, alter, and repeal regulations for Basutoland, or for
any separate portion or portion of Basutoland, for all or any of the following purpose
and to provide penalties for the breach thereof:
(1) The prevention of the introduction and spread among stock in
Basutoland of any disease specified in such regulations.
(2) The regulation and prevention of the importation into Basutoland of from any
place outside Basutoland and of the movement of stock in Basutoland.
(3) The notification of outbreaks of any such disease.
(4) The inspection of stock and the payment by the owner or person in charge of
any stock of fees for the inspection of such stock.
(5) The detention, isolation, concentration, testing, inoculation, disinfection,
(1)dosing, branding and dipping or removal of stock and the payment by the
owner or person in charge of any stock of all expenses connected with the
detention, isolation, concentration, testing, inoculation, disinfection, (1)dosing,
branding, and dipping or removal of such stock.
(6) The slaughter of stock with or without compensation to the owners thereof.
(7) The burial or destruction of carcasses and the payment by the owner or person
in charge of such carcasses of all expenses connected with the burial or
destruction of such carcasses.
(8) The fencing of any portion of the border of Basutoland for the prevention of the
introduction or spread among stock in Basutoland of any disease specified in
such regulations.
(9) (2) For prescribing the circumstances in which compensation shall be paid by the
Basutoland Administration respect of loss of sheep caused by any dipping
carried out by an inspector, and the amount of such compensation.
PART II
RINDERPEST
Proc. Nos. 10
and 24 of 1896
Rinderpest
3. Whenever the disease known as Rinderpest is known to exist among animals in
Infected areas. any part of Basutoland the Resident Commissioner may, by Notice in the
Government Gazette, declare such part of Basutoland to be an infected area, and it
shall not be lawful to remove from such area any such animals as shall be mentioned
in such notice, whether the same are not affected with such disease: Provided that it
shall be lawful for the Resident Commissioner in such notice to make such exception
as he shall think fit with regard to the removal from such area of any animals not
affected with such disease as aforesaid.
(1) As amended by 80 of 1935
(2) As amended by 16 of 1923
Prohibition of
entry of
animals from
infected areas
4. No animal liable to the said disease shall be permitted to enter Basutoland from
from any area of district which, through the spread of said disease has been
proclaimed as an infected area or district by any law, ordinance, proclamation or
regulation issued in any State or Colony in South Africa by lawful authority, until
further notice: Any person bringing or causing to be brought any such animal into
Basutoland from such area or district shall be liable, upon conviction, to a penalty
not exceeding two hundred rands or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment
for any period not exceeding twelve months, unless such fine be sooner paid.
Regulations
5. It shall be lawful for the High Commissioner in Council from time to time to
frame regulations with regard to the herding or segregation of cattle within
Basutoland, whilst travelling or otherwise, and with regard to the routes or roads
to be used by persons travelling with ox wagon or cattle, and the management and
disposal of the said cattle, at outspans, and generally with regard to all necessary
to ensure the proper carrying out of the objects of this part and the prevention of
the spread of the said disease.
Promulgation
of regulations
infringement
6. No regulation shall be valid until published the Gazette, and from the date of such
publication shall have the force of law; and any person contravening the same shall
be liable to the penalties provided in section four of this Proclamation.
Definition of
terms
7. “Animal liable to the disease known as Rinderpest” shall mean any bull, ox, cow
heifer, calf, sheep or goat, and the word “animal” in this Part shall include the
carcass, skin, or other portion of any animal, the entry of which is hereby or by any
other Proclamation prohibited.
Persons
proved to
have spread
disease of
rinderpest
guilty of an
offence
8. Every person who shall be proved to have willfully or maliciously spread or
caused to be spread the disease known as Rinderpest shall be guilty of an offence,
and may be tried either by the High Court or in manner hereinafter provided
Resident
Commissioner
may appoint
a Court
consisting of
two District
Officer to try
Cases under
this
proclamation
9. At any time after the holdings of a preparatory examination in the case of any
person charged with the commission of the offence in the preceding section set forth
it shall be lawful for the Resident Commissioner to appoint two or more District
Officer to form and constitute a Court for the hearing and determination of the said
charge, and said Court shall have jurisdiction, upon conviction, to sentence the said
person to imprisonment (3) for any period not exceeding seven years, or to receive
any number of lashes not exceeding fifty, or to both such imprisonment and such
lashes.
PART III
Proc. No
Of 1903
RABIES
High
10. It shall be lawful for the High Commissioner in Council to make regulations for
Commissioner the following purpose:
In Council
(a) To prohibit or regulate the introduction of dogs into the Territories of
may make
Basutoland from any or all adjacent Colonies.
regulations to
prohibit the
introduction of
dogs;
to prohibit or (b) To prohibit or regulate the removal of dogs from any place to any other place
regulate the
within the said Territory.
Removal of dogs
to authorize
the isolation,
muzzling or
destruction of
dogs;
(c) To authorize or require the isolation, muzzling or destruction of any dogs within
the said Territory.
penalty for
contravening
this part
11. Any person contravening any regulation made under this part shall upon
conviction be liable for every such contravention to a fine not exceeding one
hundred rand; or in default of payment imprisonment for a period not exceeding
three months.
Definition of
“dog”
12. The word “dog” in this part shall include any animal liable to the disease of
rabies which the Resident Commissioner may hereafter specify by Notice
in the Gazette. (4)
PART IV
Proc.No.7
of 1921
ANTHRAX
Definitions
13. In this Part“animal” shall mean cattle, horse, asses, mules, goats, sheep and pigs;
“Government Officer” shall mean a District Officer, Government Veterinary Officer,
Police Officer or Stock Inspector.
(3) For alternative of fine, see Revision of Penalties Proclamation-Title VI.
(4) By H.C.N. 130 of 1949 the High Commissioner specified cats as animals liable to the disease of
rabies.
report of
death due
to anthrax
(5)14. (1) Any chief or headman who knows or has reason to suspect that any
animal in his district or village is suffering from or has died of
anthrax, and
(2) any person who knows or has a reason to suspect that any animal
Belonging to him or in his charge is suffering from or has died of anthrax.
shall report the fact or, as the case may be, the suspicion to a District Officer who
shall take immediate steps to procure blood smears for purpose of diagnosis.
In any prosecution for a contravention of this section the onus of proving that he
was not aware of or did not suspect the existence or nature of the disease shall rest
upon the accused.
Burial of
animal
dying of
anthrax
15. Any person having charge or control of any animal dying or suspected of having
died of anthrax shall bury such animal intact in a suitable manner and in accordance
with any direction given by a Government Officer, and no person shall cut up or
distribute the meat or skin of any animal dying or suspected of having died of
anthrax or shall skin any such animal.
Isolation
Of animals
16. (1) It shall be lawful for any Government Officer to isolate or cause to be isolated
in a place to be pointed out by him any animals amongst which an outbreak or
Suspected outbreak of anthrax has occurred and any other animal which have been
or are suspected of having been in contact with animals infected with anthrax, and
any orders given by a Government Officer for the purpose of such isolation shall be
compiled with by any person having charge or control of the animals whose
isolation is required.
(2) The isolation of any group of animals shall be continued until all the animals
isolated in that group have been inoculated by a Government Officer and for a
further period of ten days calculated from the date of the last inoculation of any
such animal.
(3) Any costs incurred in connection with the isolation of animals shall be
recoverable from the owner of the animals and any owner of animals isolated
under the provision of this section may be ordered by a Government Officer to
furnish such number of efficient herds as in the opinion of such officer shall be
necessary for the purpose of herding and isolating such animals.
Inoculation
of animals
17. (6) The Principal Veterinary Officer or other Government Officer of the
Territory may inoculate or cause to be inoculated such animals as he may think
necessary for the purpose of preventing the spread of anthrax and any person
having charge or control of such animals shall comply with any order given by the
Principal Veterinary Officer or other Government Officer for the purpose of such
inoculation.
(7)18. (1) The High Commissioner may, for the purpose of preventing the spread of
Anthrax, prescribe by Notice in the Gazette the places, to be known as Ports of
Entry, at which animals, or any particular species of animal, shall be introduced
into the Territory.
(2) The Principal Veterinary Officer may, for the purpose of arranging adequate
Inspection and, if necessary, inoculation, of animals which may be introduced into
the Territory through any prescribed Port of Entry, direct that such animals shall
only be introduced on stated days of the week and at stated times.
(3) Any person who introduces into the Territory any animal or any particular
Species of animals to which a Notice under sub-section (1) of this section relates
except through a prescribed Port of Entry, or except on such days and at such times
as may be directed under sub-section(2), shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on
conviction to the penalties mentioned in section nineteen.
Offences
19. Any person contravening or attempting to contravene any provision of this part
Shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty
rands, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six
months.
PART V
FOUL BROOD AMONGST BEES
Bees shall
not be
imported
without
permission
20. No person shall import or cause to be imported into Basutoland(a) bees from any place without the written permission of the Resident
Commissioner;
(b) from any place outside South Africa honey in combs, or extracted beeswax,
foundation comb, used beehives or used beehive accessories or appliances
or anything that has been used to contain or manipulate bees or beeswax.
Inspection and 21. The Resident Commissioner, any District Officer or any other person authorized
destruction of
by the Resident Commissioner may—
bees, etc
(a) inspect any consignment of bees imported under the permission aforesaid:
(5) As substituted by 57 of 1922.
(6) As amended by 36 of 1938.
(7) As inserted by 36 of 1938.